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MARIETTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1920.
Personal Reflections
‘ N JE DO NOT MEAN to write something here that
will cast serious reflections on someone else, but
as Bill Arp used to say we were just “ruminating” on
matters of import to us and had not a better title to put
above our “ruminations.”
Writing the editorial page of even a weekly paper is
“not all pie"” and one of the things a fellow dislikes most
of all is to write a good article on some subject, and for
some reason have to “kill” it. ‘
There are several reasons why editorials sometimes
have to be “killed,” and far be it from us to say that more
of them ought not to be “killed,” but right now our par
ticular grievance is on account of having written what
we considered a very good one and then to pick up a
daily paper and find almost exactly the same thing in
words so near our own that we could not use what we had
written.
And the worst part about it in this instance is that
what we found was not even in the other fellow’s edi
torial page, but in his advertising columns.
But let us be more specific. On last Saturday we
wrote an editorial designed to show man’s dependence on
man, and to show how helpless he was in his original bar
baric state. To illustrate our point we started out with
this paragraph:
“A man might spend every day if a long life in mak
ing an assault with his bare hands upon an iron door and
never make the slightest impression upon it, but the same
man armed with tools of the right sort would cut through
the door within five minutes.”
Then came Sunday’s Constitution with a full page
ad by some seventy of Atlanta’s business houses under
the title of “The Cave Man,” practically the same thing
we had written, with the same moral, or perhaps just a
“leetle mite” better.
We don't see any way to get even on this thing with
out being accused of using the other fellow’s stuff, so we
hereby credit this to the above source and reproduce The
Cave Man.
“He was Commercially and Economically Independent
Would you like to live as he lived?
“The cave man was sufficient unto himself. He killed
his own food; made or found his own shelter; provided
his own amusement; filled his time as he pleased. He was
supremely alone, neither knowing nor asking the assist
ance or labor of other men for any purpose.
“But he has gone. Civilization has changed the world,
and, in giving us new knowledge new needs and desires,
has made us inter-dependent with our fellowmen.
“The house you live in the bed in which you sleep, the
table which holds your breakfast, the food you eat, the
pipe you smoke, the car in which you ride, the plant, shop
or office in which you work, the very money which is paid
you for the things you sell (whether labor or commodi
ties) are all products of the labor of your fellowman.
“Civilization means simply human co-operation. It
has brought commerce. Commerce is the exchange of
commodities for commodities and services for services.
Money is merely a measure. Whether you are butcher,
baker or candle-stick maker, doctor, lawyer, or manufac
turer, you live by selling your wares or services to your
fellowman, and with your proceeds buying you own needs
from other fellowmen.
“Buying and selling are action and reaction, insepar
ably bound up with each other. You can’t SELL unless
some one BUYS, nor can you BUY unless someone
SELLS.
“There are glorious opportunities ahead. For al] the
years of the war we have neglected producing those
things which could not be classed as ‘“‘war material.” To
day there are empty shelves everywhere and a world-wide
demand. The more rapidly we can increase production
and stimulate consumption—the quicker we can speed up
the process of exchange—the sooner shall we see the
smiling face of Prosperity, waiting just around the cor
ner—Prosperity for Capital and Labor, co-partners in
the basis of civilization.”
Only one comment of our own we wish to add to this:
A number of politicians have been prating about the prin
ciples of our forefathers, pretending that they would like
to return to the conditions under which our fathers lived,
politically and otherwise, but we have got them all down
in our little book as being either fools or liars,
] Some fellow in Macon is taking advantage of the
fight for Irish freedom to inflict his long line of family
“history upon the editors of the state. He claims a re
putable list of British ancestors who probably never
- dreamed of ever having a descendant who would so freely
«express his liking for German Kultur.
*“Courted by mail, acquainted an hour, wedded Wed
nesday,” reads a headline of this week. The divorce pro
ceedings may and may not attract so much attention,
It is hardly probable that any member of the jury
was dissappointed when Judge Sibley, on Wednesday, re
fused to permit them to visit the location of an alleged
moonshine still, the officers having previously removed
or destroyed all the liquid evidence n the vicinity.,
We have only heard from General Wood’s publicity
committee once this week, so Mr. Burleson’s mails must
be going wrong again,
If Mr. Hoover should be the Democratic nominee of
Georgia for the presidency he will owe a lot to the good
offices of James J, Flynt, Hiram L. Gardner, et al, of the
sub-committee, who evidently preferred some one else.
Emmett Shaw is getting his share of publicity this
year without running for anything, but perhaps he has a
race of some sort in view, though his present outbreak
seems a poor way of leading up to it.
The Secretary of the Interior in a recent report calls
attention to the fact that the largest conservation of the
future can only come through the wisest engineering of
e present. Reliable advice in planning for construction
'1 always worth the price.
Let Georgians Know Georgia
NENT THE BOOSTING of Georgia and “telling
A the world” about our state we must also take time
t: tell Georgians—to give them the message of Georgia’s
greatness and possibilities and secure their help to im
prove what we have for ourselves.
One of the weak points in our commercial structure
is the lack of complete and accurate knowledge of our
state by Georgians themselves. Everyone has been so
busy with his own individual affairs that we have not or
ganized publicity agencies for ourselves.
Speaking of the need of some such organization the
Savannah Morning News says: “There is a big need
for a state-wide organization ,absolutely unselfish as be
tween cities, counties or section, hitched to no man’s poli-‘
tical chariot, hitched to no one city’s ambition; and the
principles, program and results of the Landowner’s Asso
ciation seem to make that organization peculiarly well
adapted for the part of fatherhood of the proposed new
and greater body.”
The Landowners Association is an organization start
ed a few years ago in South Georgia, and not for the sale
of land at all, but for the improvement of the land. It
has devoted its energies to such things as the eradication
of ticks, improving livestock, draining lands for malaria
control and farm purposes, building good roads and like
‘work for the public as well as private good.
Its work has been of a character such as is usually
performed for cities by a board of trade or a chamber of
commerce. ' .
We heartily approve the suggestion of the Morning
News and hope that a way may be found to induce this
association or one of like character to organize the whole
state for active work in behalf of “all of Georgia.”
Having resided in both ends of the state we have fre
quently been shocked at the painful ignorance of citizens
of each sectoin regarding the people and the resources of
the other section.
The need is great for such an organization free from
the slightest tincture of politics, and above the suspicion
of sectional prejudice. Such a body would be worth more
to Georgians than we can estimate.
When we know ourselves and know our own state the
world will find it out, and it will be to the profit of each.
No Occupation
(From the Macon News)
She rises up at break of day,
And through her tasks she races;
She cooks the meal as best she may,
And scrubs the children’s faces
While school books, lunches, ribbons, too,
All need consideration.
Anl yet the census man insists
She has “No Occupation.”
When breakfast dishes are all done
She bakes a pudding, maybe;
She bakes a pudding, maybe;
With one eye watching baby;
The mending pile she then attacks, :
By way of variation,
And yet the census man insists :
She has “No Occupation.”
She irons for a little while, oy
Then presses pants for daddy.
She welcomes with a cheering smile St )
Returning lass and laddie. i
A hearty dinner next she cooks.
(No time for relaxation) 5
And yet the census man insists
She has “No Occupation.”
For lesson that the children learn e
The evening scarce is ample o
To “Mother Dear” they always turn v
For help with each example,
In grammar and geography
She finds her relaxation.
And yet the census man insists
She has “No Occupation.”
—“A Mother.”
The manufacturing of Portland cement has become
one of the great industries of this country, and in 1919
more than eighty five million barrels were shipped. With
the renewa] of many lines of industry and building which
were checked during the war the demand for cement
will be very greatly increased.
Undoubtedly the greater part of the violations of the
prohibition laws in this part of the country are the out
croppings of greed—the desire to make an easy dollar—
and not from any demand for whiskey by any large num
ber of people, and we think about the same situation ex
ists in most other localities.
The demand for bonuses being made of Congress by
the American Legion, which is so far guaranteed to be
not a political organization, makes us tremble for what
they will ask for as soon as they are fully schooled and
graduated into politics under the very able guidance of
certain politiciagxs with whom the leaders are associating,
Senator McNary says the price of shoes is going up
twenty five per cent, and hence has put in a resolution
to investigate, which practically assures that the advance
will be about thirty per cent.
Mary Pickford has just been granted a divorce and
many of her admirers did not know she was married,
However Mary has probably picked another ere this and
screen fans need waste no sympathy on Mary’s desolate
heart,.
A dispatch speaks of the fall of a famous tree in the
Garden of Gethsemane which tradition held would fall
with the Turkish Empire. There certainly were a like
point in each—both were rotten.
When Mitchell Palmer came out into the open for the
presidency the politicians were satisfied that Mr. Wilson
would not run, but he has delayed so long that we fear
Mr. Palmer will miss his train.
“Today I am wondering what would have happened
to me by now if fifty years ago some fluent talker had
converted me to the theory of the eight hour day and con
vinced me that it was not fair to my fellow workers to
put forth my best efforts in my work.—Thomas A. Edison.
Marietta needs a hotel, paved streets and few other
things which we believe are on the way for 1920. The
money is here and the need is great and nothing to be
gained by waiting longer.
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
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